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One of China's top tech company executives is dramatically detained in Canada at the request of the Trump Administration. Hackers traced to China compromise the customer database of one of the U.S.'s largest hotel chains. A Chinese scientist creates the world's first gene-edited babies.  

Five years ago, China was still routinely dismissed as a mere copycat, incapable of "real" innovation. Today, it's an unstoppable juggernaut that threatens to eat our lunch – threatening, some insist, to overtake the U.S. in critical technologies like advanced robotics and artificial intelligence, and technology issues have moved to the center of an increasingly tense bilateral relationship. Why has China provoked such anxieties among Americans? Are we right to be so concerned? And what are the sources of China's competitive strength? This talk will explore these and other questions about the role of technology in U.S.-China relations.

Kaiser Kuo, Host of the Sinica Podcast

Sponsored by the Center for the Contemporary Study of China